Being a foreign student was a highlight of college life for Lavi Raghavan, a Glen Ridge graphic designer, when she arrived from Mumbai, India, to begin pursuing an undergraduate degree at Dartmouth ...

Depression and anxiety have soared among young people in recent years, according to a new study by Blue Shield of California and Children Now. (File photo by Alison Yin/EdSource) This article first ...

DANBURY — Silas Creaven is the first member of his immediate family to go to college. Financially speaking, WestConn “was the best choice” for him, he said. Creaven received a financial aid package ...

Jessica Wheeler isn’t joking when she says she’s old enough to be the mother of her fellow students at Pennsylvania Western University’s California campus. Her daughter, Alivia, is also a student at ...

Historically, the birth rate was a strong indicator of how many incoming kindergarteners a district would receive 5 years after the child was born. In 2007, the birth rate in the U.S. was 2.1 children ...

Teachers union leaders speak at a State House briefing about enrollment declines in school districts with large immigrant populations on Wednesday. From left are Boston Teachers Union President Erik ...

Universities from Harvard to Hampshire have admitted significantly more students with disabilities over the last decade, as diagnoses for A.D.H.D. and anxiety increase. By Mark Arsenault and Steven ...

A new analysis of admissions data from after the 2023 Supreme Court decision to axe affirmative action shows admissions for Black and Latino students at elite institutions declined sharply. Class ...

WISCASSET — In this Midcoast town on the banks of the Sheepscot River, the student population has declined by 30% over the last decade. Third-year Superintendent Kim Andersson cited many reasons for ...

McMurry University celebrated record spring 2026 enrollment as January closed. In a media release, the 102 year-old university announced the 3,948 students were the latest example of an upward trend ...

Last year, the state Supreme Court ruled that taxpayers must foot the bill for their students to attend “open-enrollment” public schools elsewhere in the state, even though they’re no longer in their ...